Jessica Simpson On Top Chef?

By:OK! Staff

Oct. 31 2008, Published 12:00 p.m. ET

Could Jessica Simpson be about to add gourmet cooking to her seemingly never-ending list of talents?

The singer recently admitted that she'd love to go on TV cooking competition Top Chef — and now host Padma Lakshmi tells OK! that Jess is welcome any time.

"She has an open invitation," said Padma at the launch of the Chanel mobile art exhibition in New York.

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But will Jess's self-confessed signature dish of "chicken 'n' dumplings" make the grade?

"Yes," according to Padma, "it's not what you make its how you make it."

Well Jess — the meatball's in your court!

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